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Saturday, October 19, 2002
Note to all my friends who like putting those graphics of "What [blank] are you?" quizzes on your blog, please have an idea of what you're getting into before posting it. Or at least don't comment on it if you have no idea what the final product is.
posted at 12:23 AM
21st century digital boy
Well it looks like they've done some retooling over at VH-1 Classic -- seemingly a must watch for anyone who appreciates when MTV played music consistently. Headline Act looks be to a nice change of pace -- 30 minutes (ok, maybe 18 with all the house ads) of videos of one band plus little trivia bits in between (watching the U2 block right now). If you like the band featured, you're hooked for a bit, if not, you move on. I'm not a metal person, but there's now a metal block. And there's some request show, which doesn't look as promising, but who knows. The whole channel still blows other music video channels out of the water.
Slightly down the dial, the other MTV digital channel that's not MTV2 is now MTV Hits (was MTVX -- rock music; then MTV Jams -- R&B and hip hop). Hmm, so this is the channel that MTV used to be. Oh well, at least I can catch up on my pop music, if just for question-writing purposes.
posted at 12:14 AM
Wednesday, October 16, 2002
Why am I not surprised about Geraldo Rivera doing something like this? All in a day's work, I guess.
posted at 12:16 PM
Tuesday, October 15, 2002
Dude, you're psychic or something
Not long after this post, the venerable Wall Street Journal follows suit. Who knew I could help pitch story ideas?
And speaking of prescient thinking, the Tuesday Morning Quarterback column on ESPN.com (and formerly Slate) likes to rip on the New York Times for its inability to predict final scores of NFL games. So he should check out this Fearless Forecasters grid from last Friday's (or maybe it was Thursday's because of the early game) edition of The Daily Northwestern. Look at Badger and Donnelly's pick for the Michigan-Penn State game and Glenn Kasses' pick for the Oregon-UCLA game. Now match it up with the final scores of Michigan-Penn State and Oregon-UCLA.
posted at 1:39 AM
I've got a fever, and the only prescription is this!
posted at 1:22 AM
Call out, Tattoo!
It's always interesting to read what amounts to primer articles on fantasy sports, given that it's my job and that a lot of my friends have been playing it even longer than I have. Still, it's nice to see it get somewhat positive attention, or even less than positive as Frank Deford notes.
A couple of things regarding this, though. For all of you who think I've got the greatest job in the world, think again. It's a job. I deal with lots of issues that any job would entail -- office politics, bickering, dealing with odd people, up and down work conditions, etc. And oh yeah, I become a de facto customer service/tech support person, which is not fun if that's not officially your job. Sadly enough, that Gateway ad featuring the actress who plays Frau in the Austin Powers movies as a phone operator seems similar to me. I hate to give people the runaround, but it gets annoying when you're the alleged "expert" because you're sorta the person connected with the project but yet not directly connected to the information people need. I do respect the people who can work customer service desks/call lines/etc., especially given what complaints they'll have to hear. The saying goes, "The customer is always right" but that doesn't mean, "The customer can be an asshole because of that."
posted at 1:08 AM
We now have two wild card teams in the World Series. So, will this guy's head explode now? Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Costas fan, but sometimes the "purist" aspect goes a bit too far. If some of them really do want baseball back to what it's like in the old days, would we still have Negro Leagues? How far back do you want to go? It's 2002, not 1952 or 1932, get used to it.
In any event, I think I'm rooting for the Giants mainly because of Barry Bonds and not despite it. Then again, it's probably that knee-jerk reaction of rooting for the grizzled veterans toward the end of their career, even after years of rooting against them. It happened with Martina Navratilova, and now it's happening with Bonds. At least now we won't have to hear all the bellyaching that Bonds never did anything in the playoffs. He's in the Series now, so everything is hunky dory now.
Finally, with the World Series starting up Saturday -- meaning endless hype for the next few days, but thankfully saving us from excess 24 promos -- we'll get to annoy many fans with Tim McCarver at the mic. I may be one of the few people (Aaron Barnhart included) that actually likes the old catcher. Sure, he can get preachy at times, but I wonder if people actually listen to what he says and connects it with what's going on in the field. Maybe people don't want to be educated when watching a baseball game, fine by me.
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